TY - BOOK AU - Dixon,Bernard ED - American Society for Microbiology, TI - Animalcules: the activities, impacts, and investigators of microbes T2 - ( Textbook, ASM Press ) SN - 9781683671374 U1 - 579 23 PY - 2009///] CY - Washington, DC PB - ASM Press KW - Microbiology KW - Collected Work N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; I; Touching life at many points --; Disseminators aloft? --; Pantoea and the locust --; The Microbiology of art --; Why do they do it? --; Out of the blue --; Reflections on cellulolysis --; Jelly from space? --; Botox and dairy cows --; Fiction, fact, and reality --; Microbiology for gastronomes --; The Double life of escherichia coli --; Not all cigars and caviar --; Microbial versatility in Berlin --; Whither psychoneuroimmunology? --; II; The Ecological context --; Communal diversity in biofilms --; Biofilm life --; Our most abundant coterrestrials --; Heliobacter from the seas? --; Selective agencies --; Natural disaster microbiology --; Foot-and-mouth folly? --; Ecology lessons --; Biocides in the kitchen --; Conjectures and realities --; Exterminating pathogens --; Learning from Denmark --; Protozoa and lurking pathogens --; What is virulence --; III; The Human context --; Questionable experiments --; Lyme disease : the public dimension --; Blatent opportunism --; Bioscience embattled --; "Playing God" --; Microbes in the media --; A Little learning ... --; Spotlight on acetaldehyde --; Measles, polio, and conscience --; Myxomatosis : grim questions --; Rationalizing vaccination --; A European furor --; Bioremediation and greenery --; The Citation game --; IV; Personalia --; Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Clifford Dobell, and Robert Hooke --; Robert Koch and his postulates --; Hideyo Noguchi, Max Theiler, and Yellowjack --; Ren�e Dubos's mirage of health --; Ferdinand Cohn, neglected visionary --; Johannes Fibiger, a Dane to remember --; Frederick Twort, codiscoverer of phages --; Alick Isaacs and interferon --; Dissenters : Max von Pettenkofer and Friedrich Wolter --; Gerhard Domagk and the origins of sulfa --; Cecil Hoare's eponymous organism --; Ants and Fred Hoyle's challenge to Darwinism --; pioneers of American microbiology --; V; Doing microbiology --; At the level of cowpats --; Fishy business --; Science �a la mode? --; "Wherever they are found ..." --; There's more to do --; Self-frustration --; Genomics and innovation in antibiotics --; The Relevance of taxonomy --; Yeasts are complex ... --; ... and yeasts are versatile --; Resounding banalities --; Microbiology present and future --; Looking back --; A Global challenge ER -